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HEALTH

Epilepsy surgery — a ray of hope for many
Shivani Bhakoo

Ludhiana, August 21
About 70-80 per cent of the epileptic patients get cured with medication and the remaining 20 per cent patients fall under intractable epilepsy, who can be cured through surgery.

But the surgical procedure involves specialised tests which include MRI and video EEG and coordination of an epileptologist, neurosurgeon, neuroradiologist and neuropsychologist.

These views were expressed by Dr V.P.Singh, former Additional Professor and Unit Head, Neurosurgery Department and Gamma Knife Centre, AIIMS, Delhi.

Dr Singh was in the city today to establish Epilepsy Surgery centre at Dayanand Medical College and Hospital.

Talking to Ludhiana Tribune, Dr Singh said the surgical procedure was straight forward and any good surgeon could perform it, but there was a need of proper selection of cases.

“Though the epilepsy surgery is quite old but for many years medical fraternity has not been able to localize it. In the last few years, it has picked up again,” said Dr V.P. Singh.

The surgery could be performed on a small child, too, but majority of patients were between 10 years to 30 years of age. The procedure was safe but involved certain side-effects also as everything was related with brain.

Dr Singh said epilepsy surgery was currently being undertaken at very few institutes, including SCTIMST, Trivendrum, and AIIMS, New Delhi.

As per international guidelines, one epilepsy centre could cater to about 200 surgeries in a year.

There was an emergent need to develop the surgery in various parts of the country.

“DMCH has embarked on this venture to establish epilepsy surgery in this institution to serve the people of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan. I would perform surgeries with the local Neurosurgery team at DMCH,” said Dr V.P. Singh.

The tests would cost around Rs 15,000 while the cost of surgery would be anything between Rs 40,000-Rs 50,000.

SPORTS

BVM athletes reign supreme
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, August 21
Athletes from Bharatiya Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School dominated the proceedings in the Ludhiana District Open Athletics Championship held at Guru Nanak Stadium here today. More than 250 participants took part in this meet organised by the District Athletics Association.

The following are the results: boys (u-14) — 60 m Simranpreet Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana 1, Ajay Tandon of GTB, Khanna, 2 and Sanjay of KV No 1, Halwara 3; 100 m — Simranpreet Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Ajay Tandon of GTB School, Khanna, 2 and Vishal Bector of BVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 400 m — Dharminder of GTB School, Khanna, 1, Vishal Bector of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Harpreet Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 800 m — Dharminder Kumar of GTB School, Khanna, 1, Raghav Mohindru of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Harpreet Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 3; long jump — Sanjay Kumar of KV No 1, Halwara, 1, Aman of RV, Halwara, 2 and Ranjodh Singh of GNKH, Gujar Khan, MT, Ludhiana, 3; high jump — Mohit Kumar of GGN School, Ludhiana, 1, Ranjodh Singh of GNKH School, 2 and Jagdeep Singh of BVM School 3.

Discus throw — Ramandeep Singh of GGN School, Ludhiana, 1; shot put — Narinder Singh of Walia Modern School, Khanna, 1, Jagraj Singh of GSS School, Nanak Majra, 2 and Maninder Singh of KV No 1, Halwara, 3.

Girls (u-14) — 60 m Deepika of BVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Diksha of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Kriti of KVM School 3; 100 m — Deepika of BVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Diksha of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Kriti of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 400 m — Ganga Gautam of BVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Arshia Bagga of KVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Navneet Kaur of Sacred Heart School, Khanna, 3.

800 m — Ganga Gautam of BVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Nimrata of Khalsa School, Khanna, 2 and Ritika of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3; high jump — Kriti of KVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Ritika of KVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Anjali of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3; discus throw — Harsharn Kaur of KV No 1, Halwara, 1, Gurmandeep Kaur of KV No 1, Halwara, 2; shot put — Harsharan Kaur of KV No 1, Halwara, 1 and Gurmandeep Kaur of KV No 1, Halwara 2.

Boys (u-16) — 100 m Raman Kumar of GHS, Ludhiana, 1, Himanshu of GNPS, Ludhiana, 2 and Jasmeet Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 400 m — Inderjit Singh of Malwa Khalsa Senior Secondary School, Ludhiana, 1, Balpreet Singh of Speed Fund Academy 2 and Sandeep Kumar of Govt Senior Secondary School, Kadian Kalan, 3; 800 m — Rajinder Kumar of Kadian Kalan 1, Amandeep of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Hitesh Girotra of BVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 1500 m — Rajinder Kumar of Kadian Kalan 1, Jatinder Kumar of GTB School, Khanna, 2 and Paramjit Singh of Shalimar Model School 3.

High jump — Sewak Singh of GTB School, Khanna, 1, Abhishek Sharma of GTB School, Khanna, 2 and Paramjit Singh of GGN School, Ludhiana, 3; long jump — Jasmeet Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Harpreet Singh of SDP School, Ludhiana, 2 and Sumit of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3; shot put — Sandeep of KV No 1, Halwara, 1, Mandeep Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Jagdeep Singh of KV No 1, Halwara, 3; discus throw — Gurlehmber Singh of Speed Fund Academy 1, Sandeep Singh of KV No 1, Halwara, 2 and Jagdeep Singh of KV No 1, Halwara, 3.

Girls (u-16) — Srishti of KVM School, Ludhiana, 1, Surbhi of Alpine International School, Ludhiana, 2 and Meenakshi of Alpine School 3; long jump — Harpreet Kaur of GTB School, Khanna, 1, Kirti Sharma of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Srishti of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3; discus throw — Diljit Kaur of GNIPS, Ludhiana, 1, Kamaldeep Kaur of BVM School 2; 100 m hurdles — Kusum of Khalsa School, Khanna, 1, Srishti of KVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Shveta of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3.

Boys (u-18) — Gurjodh Singh of Harkishan Public School, Ludhiana, 1, Deepak Kumar of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Vaibhav Jain of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 400 m — Lakhbir Singh of Manak Majra 1, Jasbir Singh of BVM School, Ludhiana, 2 and Jatin Ahuja of BVM School, Ludhiana, 3; 800 m — Balkar singh of Malwa Khalsa School, Ludhiana, 1, Sandeep Singh of Shaheed Paramjeet School, Gill, 2 and Rajinder Singh of Shaheed Paramjit School, Gill, 3.

Long jump — Pawandeep Singh of GTB School, Khanna, 1, Amandeep Singh of GSS, Multipurspose School, Ludhiana, 2 and Manmohan Singh of Manak Majra 3; high jump — Manpreet Singh of Khanna 1, Rohit of KVM School 2 and Rohit Kumar of GGN School, Ludhiana, 3; shot put — Gagandeep Singh 1, Maninder Singh 2 and Jagmanjot Singh 3; 5 km walk — Bhupinderjeet Singh of Gill 1 and Ajaypal Singh of Khanna 2.

Girls (u-18) 100 m — Rupali Arora of BVM School 1, Monisha Gupta of BVM School 2 and Jaspreet Kaur of BVM School 3; 800 m — Gagandeep Kaur of Hindi Purti Pathshala, Khanna 1, Manisha Verma of BVM School 2 and Charu Aggarwal of BVM School 3.

Girls (u-20) 800 m — Priya Bawa of BVM School, Ludhiana 1, Sakshsi Talwar of BVM School, Ludhiana 2; boys (u-20) 800 m — Maneet Singh of BVM School 1, Varinder Singh of GTB School, Khanna, 2 and Jatin Kumar of KVM School, Ludhiana, 3.

Green Land School lads excel as PAU Zone lift TT title
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, August 21
The paddlers of Green Land Senior Secondary Public School, GT Road, near Jalandhar bypass, representing PAU Zone, gave a sterling performance to beat their opponents from Khanna Zone 3-0 and emerged as zonal champions in the Punjab Schools District Table Tennis Tournament (u-17) held at Guru Nanak Stadium here.

In the final, PAU Zone stamped its supremacy as Sahil, Manpreet and Dharminder of Green Land School drubbed their rivals without being challenged.

In the first match, Sahil went on to wrap it up without facing any rasistence from Inderveer whom he drubbed 3-0.

The second match was played between PAU Zone’s Manpreet and Khanna Zone’s Amritpal in which the former romped home victorious 3-1 while in the third match, Dharminder of PAU Zone proved too good for his rival Dipesh whom he defeated 3-1 and also helped his team annex the title.

Mr Rajesh Rudra and Ms Baldeep Pandher, Director and Principal, respectively, of Green Land School congratulated the boys for bringing fame to their school. On the basis of their performance during this tournament, Sahil, Manpreet and Dharminder have been selected to represent Ludhiana in the forthcoming Punjab Schools Table Tennis Tournament.

Chaos at athletics meet
Anil Datt

Ludhiana, August 21
Pandemonium prevailed at the one-day Ludhiana District Athletics Championship, organised by the District Athletics Association (DAA) at Guru Nanak Stadium here today. More than 250 participants drawn from different schools of the district took part in various events conducted in different age groups. All events were held in a single day and the organisers failed to cope up with the rush of participants.

As this was not enough, a football match between the deaf and dumb players from Rest of Punjab and Jalandhar XI was played at the venue, causing discomfort to the athletes and the officials. Though the athetic events were halted for the time when the football match was in progress, it certainly affected rhythm of athletes and performance as well.

The officials, appointed by the organisers to conduct the meet, were found wanting as they had to complete the events today itself. Moreover, the young budding athletes failed to give their best as they sweat it out in a scroching heat and humid conditions. The parents, accompanying the players were a harassed lot, braving the heat and had to rush repeatedly to fetch water for their wards.

A young girl from Kundan Vidya Mandir School who competed in 100 sprint, 400 m, 800 m and was awaiting her turn for the gruelling races scheduled for the later in the day. She rued that the meet could have been held in two or three days as this has affected the players’ performance.

When asked why the DAA had decided to hold the meet in one day, Mr P S Pannu, general secretary of the association, said they had to pay Rs 5,000 per day to the Punjab Sports Department for using the stadium and thus they had no alternative but to complete the meet in a day.

Inter-block rural sports meet on Aug 24, 25
Our Sports Reporter

Ludhiana, August 21
The local office of the Punjab Sports Department in association with the Sports Authority of India will organise a two-day district-level Inter-Block Rural Sports Tournament for boys and girls in the age group of u-16 years at Guru Nanak Sports Complex here on August 24 and 25, according to Mr Gianinder Singh, District Sports Officer, Ludhiana.

Competitions in eight disciplines, namely athletics, weightlifting, kabaddi, wrestling, volleyball, hockey, football and tug-of-war will be conducted in the boy’s section while in the girl’s section, the events are athletics, kabaddi, kho-kho, weightlifting, volleyball and hockey.

The eligibility age for the participants is below 16 years as on December 31,2005. The participants must be working/studying and residing in rural areas for the past two years. They should not have earlier taken part in the open state/national-level meets other than rural sports. Entries close with the DSO, Ludhiana, by 5 pm on August 22.

During this meet, athetic, weightlifting and wrestling events to be held are as under: Boys-(atheltics) 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 1500 m and 3000 m races; discus throw, long jump, high jump, shot put (5 kg) and javeline throw (600gm); wrestling- 38 kg, 40 kg, 42 kg, 48 kg and 52 kg; weightlifting-56 kg, 62 kg, 69 kg, 77 kg, 85 kg, 94 kg, 105 kg and + 105 kg.

Girls-(athletics)-100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m, 3000 m races; long jump, high jump, shot put (4 kg) and javelin throw (600 gm); weightlifting-48 kg, 53 kg, 58 kg, 63 kg, 69 kg, 75 kg and + 75 kg.

Performance during this meet will be taken into consideration while selecting the Ludhiana teams for the Punjab State Rural Games for Boys to be held from October 22 to 24 and the girls’ team for the state meet slated for November 4 to 6 at Mansa, Mr Gianinder Singh said.